Social Studies Term 2 Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.
Our Unit of Inquiry ... The Curator - Fossils Museum Duntroon - Oamaru Museum and Forrester Gallery
- What will we put in a Twizel Museum - Famous Museums - Fiction about museums!
Further related learning ...
Mackenzie Roundup "More of Our Favourites" published in 1992 includes sketches by Colin Wheeler of Oamaru and all proceeds are invested in the Mackenzie District Education Trust. The cover shows driving Godley Peaks merinos through a river bed on the station. (spiral binding). Dedicated to the youth of the Mackenzie in whose hands we confidently place our future. It is with pride we use the Mackenzie Tartan as a symbol of our heritage. Pope Print 29 Sophia St., Timaru. Recipe book, with some poems. Text parallel to spine. 152 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Includes index.
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this is a picture of the museum Further extensions from our studies
Karetao are traditional Māori puppets. There has been a recent revival of interest in these treasures. Like many things in our performing arts tradition, karetao were set aside and much knowledge and experience was lost to history.
Despite this loss, however, some items do remain including:
Extant examples of traditional karetao held in museums here in New Zealand and around the world
Some fragmentary literature
Some historical films and videos
Some memories and small items of literature held within iwi communities
What we saw and learned on our Museum trip to Oamaru and Duntroon ....
Letter to Parents and Caregivers
Dear Parents/ Caregivers of Room 15 Students
Thank you for the response for parent help that is required for our Oamaru Excursion next week. Many thanks to Dawn Ghoorah, Vanessa Beirne and Mary Smith for giving up time to be with us on Tuesday. We will all meet in Room 15 at 8.20am so we can leave the school grounds in the vans at 8.30am.
8.30am Depart from car park
10.30 North Otago Museum
11.30 Forrester Art Gallery
12.00 Subway Food Outlet and lunch time
12.30 Oamaru’s Prehistoric World
1.30 Duntroon Vanished World
3.30pm Drop off students to home address or school as prearranged
Cost at this stage $15 plus own money for lunch or bring a packed lunch.
Please return the following payment slip. I realise it will be a big ask for some families as there is the cost of the Duntroon Sports Event next week as well. Just let us know if it would be more convenient to pay later. Room 15 students will be covering the total cost by doing a fundraising project in next term’s Economic Study.
Homeroom teacher, Lyn McLennan
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Please find attached $15.00 for ……………………………………………………………………………. of Room 15 as travel costs for the Social Studies EOTC trip to learn about Museums.
Our family would like to make payment for this Social Studies trip at a later date of ………………………………………
Please use our school account to cover the costs for the Room 15 Social Studies trip
Deposit money directly into school account using code MUSEUM
Lets go to Oamaru to meet a real live curator ...
Elizabeth King is curator of the Forrester Gallery and the North Otago Museum
How nice to hear from you on such a rainy cold day here in Oamaru!
We have some cool shows on in the Forrester Gallery. You will find information about them on our culture Waitaki website that I see you have the link to below.
What you may be interested in is the show
NEW DREAMS, OLD TREASURES
A display of ethnic items brought to Oamaru by migrants from their home countries.
Brought to you by the Waitaki Multicultural Council
7 May 2016 to 9 July 2016
I hope this is useful, if you require more information please ask.
Are you planning to visit?
Elizabeth King
Elizabeth King
Curator of Education, Forrester Gallery and North Otago Museum
[kyoo-rey-ter, kyoo r-ey- for 1–3;kyoo r-uh-ter for 4] SpellSyllables
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com noun1.the person in charge of amuseum,art collection, etc.
2.a person who selects content forpresentation,as on a website.
3.a manager; superintendent.
4.Law. a guardian of a minor,lunatic,or otherincompetent,especially with regard to his or her property.
Colin Wheeler is an important regional artist, well known for his love and painterly documentation of our natural and built landscape. His exceptional ability and skill in observation, recording and drawing technique deserves our attention and respect.
This exhibition features detailed preparatory sketches exploring tone and colour, notes and gridded 'roughs' together with the paints to which they relate.
One of North Otago’s most acclaimed artists, Colin Wheeler.
Born in Dunedin in 1919, he studied at the Canterbury School of Art and Camberwell School of Arts and Craft in London.
He moved to Oamaru in 1951 to work as art master at Waitaki Boys’ High School. Former pupils have very fond memories of his class.
I once had the privilege of visiting him in his home. He was a very modest man but his enthusiasm for his art and knowledge of the subjects he painted was inspirational.
His books of paintings of historic sheep stations which were first published in the 1960s were very popular and he has left a huge legacy of paintings of rural New Zealand.
His work also established a record of North Otago landscapes and buildings and an invaluable collection depicting Oamaru scenes. He gifted many of his paintings to the Forrester Gallery, some of which can be seenhere.
His contribution to art was recognised with a Queens Service Medal.
The Artist’s Room also has examples of his work.
The Oamaru Mail pays tribute to him here and this website has more on his career.
An Internationally acclaimed artist ....
Leslie Gerry
Hi there Leslie
My friend sent me a present from England today. I absolutely adore it and want to thank you for helping make a dull, rainy Friday in Twizel, New Zealand, just so much brighter and fun! I wore it at school all day (I'm the cooking and sewing teacher at Twizel Area School) and smiles overtook the whole school of 200 students. Later, I went to buy a thank you card in our wee village and the same thing happened. Then when I got home, my two springers jumped with elation as I walked through the gate. Just wanted to share ... your talent is quite magical! Hope your day was as fun as mine today!
Hi Lyn Thank you for sending me such a wonderful email!I am so glad you liked the apron.It is amazing how many people think that dog is theirs, Your girls look great. Well springers are a special breed - manic, loving workaholics.
Unfortunately I never got to NZ despite training at art college in Sydney.
Wow, so lovely to get an email from you. I imagine you are a very busy person, so I am humbled you took the time to personally reply.
Even though you have lived in Australia, I sure hope you get to spoil yourself and take some time out in scenic New Zealand. Here in middle earth we are spoilt for the rich treasures of nature at its purest ... (a vast contrast to your New York study, but wonderfully similar stark definitive lines)
I sincerely hope you can plan an escape and come and visit us ... we're 100% PURE.
I am predicting you have a Golden Retriever and possibly two, if not more cats.
My 11 and 12 year old students at Twizel Area School are currently doing a study on Museums and how curators create collections. Would you mind if we sent you some questions about your work and where your original works are currently showcased? We are heading to Oamaru to visit the Forrester Gallery to view the late local artist Colin Wheeler's collection ... we like his interpretations of our barren landscapes ...
Yes I have had 2 golden retrievers, 1 black lab and a couple of staffordshire bull terriers. Only a staffy at the moment plus 2 cats and a pony! I very much like the Colin Wheeler paintings. He must have been around many of the English Railway poster artists in the 50s. ( I can see that he trained at Camberwell)
I am in the middle of a book on Havana and have completed 17 paintings for it so far - 8 to go. I will publish it towards the end of the year and will have a book launch at a book fair in San Francisco Feb 2017.
In the past I have created work for museums, especially many custom made products for them to sell to the public.
Best wishes Leslie
We found Havana on our map of Cuba. We chose a scene that we might paint if we were there.
We found a Railway Poster from the 1950's that looks a bit like Colin Wheeler's style ...
Oamaru sculptor Don Paterson has preserved the Oamaru Railway Station and transformed it into an art installation, Oamaru's Prehistoric World. PHOTO: HAMISH MACLEAN
Oamaru sculptor Don Paterson has preserved the Oamaru Railway Station and transformed it into an art installation, Oamaru's Prehistoric World. PHOTO: HAMISH MACLEAN
As would-be soldiers in the 20th century boarded a train in Oamaru, heading off to war, perhaps stepping on to the train was the first step in a voyage through a portal to an alternative universe.
Oamaru sculptor Don Paterson has an eye for the monstrous and unnatural and a taste for reality ‘‘tinted with fantasy'', and he has transformed the 116-year-old 3200sq m Oamaru Railway Station into an art installation that echoes those early steps into the unknown.
Oamaru's Prehistoric World will open on June 3, but even then visitors will only see the ‘‘tip of the iceberg'', Mr Paterson said as he guided the Otago Daily Times through the space yesterday. In an audiovisual room he played a 12-minute short film created by friend and long-time collaborator Oamaru painter and film-maker Jac Grenfell.
Antarctic rocks from David Harrowfield's collection, donated by friend to the project Zena Keen, offered a taste of the genuine learning that occurred at Oamaru's Prehistoric World and Dave Herbert had created plywood skeletal dinosaurs that inhabit it.
The ‘‘face'' of Oamaru's Prehistoric World, Larry, a sly impish creature seen throughout, rides a life-sized giant moa, one of Mr Herbert's creations, next to a fibreglass cast of a T-Rex skull.
Oamaru's Prehistoric World was a place where a knight in shining armour would fight a triceratops, Mr Paterson said.‘‘Why ‘do' dinosaurs like everyone else?'' he said. ‘‘I just want something really spectacular.''Mr Paterson would point guests to the Vanished World Society in Duntroon. What he created was ‘‘a bit of reality-based fantasy, if there is such a thing'' and what he hoped would soon become one of Oamaru's main attractions.
Mr Paterson was a key figure in setting up Steampunk HQ. The sturdy metal in the building is very much his style. Mr Paterson and Mr Grenfell were also instrumental in the design of Steampunk HQ's Infinity Portal and the massive Steampunk train that sits out front.
He was one of those behind the 3.2m-high, 4m-long
Steampunk-styled elephant in the Steampunk playground at Friendly Bay and the 6m-high giant penny-farthing swing there too. Mr Paterson's footprint at the Oamaru Harbour extends to the Galley, the Steampunk-themed cafe with rusted-metal exterior was his brainchild.
Mr Paterson bought the Oamaru Railway Station for $1000 in March last year, but the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust imposed a condition that he spend at least $100,000 (plus GST), excluding labour, on maintenance and restoration over the following 18 months.
Mr Paterson said he spent the sum in the first four months as the building was derelict, leaking and rotting.‘‘It was getting tired,'' Mr Paterson said.
When Mr Paterson bought the building he had three priorities: preserve the building; create a hub; and create something for people to enjoy again. ‘‘In a strange way it does become a portal to other places''.
The Station, in Humber St, already houses a restaurant and brewery, which opened in October last year.
Virtual reality, in which visitors would be able to put on headsets and ride a dinosaur, or watch a stampede of dinosaurs around them, would become a part of the experience by the end of the year.
‘‘It has to evolve,'' he said. ‘‘It has to grow, everything needs to grow.'' hamish.maclean@odt.co.nz
The Nobel e-museum is a great place to start for information on all of the Nobel Prize winners. Each winner has a brief biography and the context for them winning the Nobel Prize. Educational ... Nobel Prize e-museum, levels 4–8 http://ssol.tki.org.nz/social_studi...phy/nobel_prize_e_museum_levels_4_8
by HUDSON, Rose
When Prince Charles visited a Wellington science museum, he listened to Dunedin and Wellington primary school pupils taking part in a video conference about the royal albatross. Part 03 No. 3 : 1994 : Pgs 43-47 View details
Prince Charles and the Royal Albatross 1994
Have you been to see the albatros colony in Dunedin?
by WERRY, Philippa The twenty-fifth century class is on a visit to the museum where they see objects from the past, such as a car, food, and a book. [Six characters] Level 3 Jun : 2012 : 36-43 View details
The man who makes animals
by SOMERSET, David Tom Tischler makes life-size models of animals - gorillas, tortoises, koalas, eagles, and many more - for museums and zoos in North America. We can follow the steps in the making of a bronze komodo dragon. Part 02 No. 4 : 1993 : Pgs 30-35 View details
The Moa
by STORER, Steven R. Tipene has discovered a moa skeleton, and an expert from Auckland Museum is coming down to look at it. Tipene is famous, and everyone wants to know him. So why is Tipene so worried? Part 04 No. 3 : 2001 : Pgs 20-25 View details
What did they do for fun?
by O'BRIEN, Bill Four generations of Royce Madigan's family have lived in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham. Royce decides to find out about the lives of his grandfather and great-grandfather. He uses a variety of resources that include family photos, websites, and the Otago Settlers Museum. Part 02 No. 1 : 2004 : Pgs 16-23 View details
Helping to win the war
by GRACE, Dick
In this evocative memoir, Dick Grace recounts life as a schoolboy in an East Coast Maori settlement during the Second World War. He recalls how the community contributed to the war effort by raising money for Te Rau Aroha, a canteen truck for the Maori Battalion, now housed in the Army Museum at Waiouru. Part 01 No. 03 : 2007 : 18-26
Auckland Museum - where the best people want to work
As one of New Zealand's leading tourist attractions and academic institutions, the Auckland War Memorial Museum is home to a vast treasure house, protecting and interpreting collections for over 150 years. From the curatorial offices to visitor services, the Museum Director to our dedicated volunteers and gallery assistants, whether they are managing the collections, visitors or resources - each staff member of Auckland Museum helps to ensure an enriching, memorable experience for all visitors. It's rare to come across an opportunity where you can realise your desire to work in a fast-paced and lively organisation, but it's your passion for developing a modern and engaging Museum that makes these opportunities truly stand out.
We are a class of Year 7 and 8 students at Twizel Area School. Our teacher, Miss McLennan, has given us the option to choose our topic of inquiry in Social Studies this term.
Last year we learned about New Zealand National Park walking tracks, Culture and Heritage of Scottish and Dutch immigrants, Natural Disasters in the World, and in Term 4 a unit about how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
We would like to know what you currently have on exhibition that we might consider learning about for our inquiry.
The Forrester Gallery in the Lawson designed former Bank of New South Wales building located at 9 Thames Street, Oamaru 9400. Open: Weekdays from 10.30am-4.30pm. Weekends and public holidays from 1.00pm-4.30pm (Closed: ANZAC morning, Easter Friday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day) Admission Free | Donations Welcomed The Forrester Gallery is funded by the Waitaki District Council.
The mere (Māori pronunciation: [ˈmɛrɛ]) is a type of short, broad-bladed weapon in the shape of an enlarged tear drop. It was used to strike/jab an opponent in the body or the head (it is misleading to call it a club as described by early visitors to New Zealand) (patu), usually made from Nephrite jade (Pounamu or greenstone).[1] A mere is one of the traditional, close combat, one-handed weapons of the indigenous Māori, of New Zealand and a symbol of chieftainship.
The Maori word for greenstone is Pounamu. The stone is also known as Nephrite (jade) and Bowenite (serpentine). The New Zealand variety is found only at Te Waipounamu (the waters of greenstone) which is the South Island. Colours vary considerably Pounamu was and is highly valued by Maori for its beauty and spiritual quality. Traditionally it was shaped into ornaments, weapons and tools which over time acquired status as taonga or treasured possessions.
Level 4
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
Social studies
Understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies. Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people. (Term 2)
Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments. (Term 1)
Understand that events have causes and effects.
Understand how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.
Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges.
Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people.
Our Unit of Inquiry ...
The Curator
- Fossils Museum Duntroon
- Oamaru Museum and Forrester Gallery
- What will we put in a Twizel Museum
- Famous Museums
- Fiction about museums!
Further related learning ...
Mackenzie Roundup "More of Our Favourites" published in 1992 includes sketches by Colin Wheeler of Oamaru and all proceeds are invested in the Mackenzie District Education Trust. The cover shows driving Godley Peaks merinos through a river bed on the station. (spiral binding). Dedicated to the youth of the Mackenzie in whose hands we confidently place our future. It is with pride we use the Mackenzie Tartan as a symbol of our heritage. Pope Print 29 Sophia St., Timaru. Recipe book, with some poems. Text parallel to spine. 152 p., [14] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Includes index.
this is a picture of the museum
Further extensions from our studies
http://www.theprow.org.nz/
http://www.southcanterbury.org.nz/x,1,2395/te-ana-ngai-tahu-rock-art-centre.html
Karetao - Puppets
Karetao are traditional Māori puppets. There has been a recent revival of interest in these treasures. Like many things in our performing arts tradition, karetao were set aside and much knowledge and experience was lost to history.Despite this loss, however, some items do remain including:
Museum Follow-up
Daniel produced a movie
https://drive.google.com/a/twizel.school.nz/file/d/0B3WSVM2AqBlLRGJnQUthSm9JMEE/view?usp=sharing
The class wrote thank you letters to our parent helpers and the Museum curators.
https://docs.google.com/a/twizel.school.nz/document/d/1lwhJnMyWMqrP_cPEhNuPTmxPXYjJCLrl3HvyoPyIGgg/edit?usp=sharing
What we saw and learned on our Museum trip to Oamaru and Duntroon ....
Letter to Parents and Caregivers
Dear Parents/ Caregivers of Room 15 Students
Thank you for the response for parent help that is required for our Oamaru Excursion next week. Many thanks to Dawn Ghoorah, Vanessa Beirne and Mary Smith for giving up time to be with us on Tuesday. We will all meet in Room 15 at 8.20am so we can leave the school grounds in the vans at 8.30am.
8.30am Depart from car park
10.30 North Otago Museum
11.30 Forrester Art Gallery
12.00 Subway Food Outlet and lunch time
12.30 Oamaru’s Prehistoric World
1.30 Duntroon Vanished World
3.30pm Drop off students to home address or school as prearranged
Cost at this stage $15 plus own money for lunch or bring a packed lunch.
Please return the following payment slip. I realise it will be a big ask for some families as there is the cost of the Duntroon Sports Event next week as well. Just let us know if it would be more convenient to pay later. Room 15 students will be covering the total cost by doing a fundraising project in next term’s Economic Study.
Homeroom teacher, Lyn McLennan
……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Please find attached $15.00 for ……………………………………………………………………………. of Room 15 as travel costs for the Social Studies EOTC trip to learn about Museums.
Our family would like to make payment for this Social Studies trip at a later date of ………………………………………
Please use our school account to cover the costs for the Room 15 Social Studies trip
Deposit money directly into school account using code MUSEUM
Lets go to Oamaru to meet a real live curator ...
Elizabeth King is curator of the Forrester Gallery and the North Otago Museum
http://www.culturewaitaki.org.nz/forrester-gallery/whats-on
Kia ora room 15
How nice to hear from you on such a rainy cold day here in Oamaru!
We have some cool shows on in the Forrester Gallery. You will find information about them on our culture Waitaki website that I see you have the link to below.
What you may be interested in is the show
NEW DREAMS, OLD TREASURES
A display of ethnic items brought to Oamaru by migrants from their home countries.
Brought to you by the Waitaki Multicultural Council
7 May 2016 to 9 July 2016
I hope this is useful, if you require more information please ask.
Are you planning to visit?
Elizabeth King
Elizabeth King
Curator of Education, Forrester Gallery and North Otago Museum
www.culturewaitaki.org.nz
curatorkjʊ(ə)ˈreɪtə/
noun
- a keeper or custodian of a museum or other collection.
"the curator of drawings at the National Gallery"|| synonyms: || custodian, keeper, conservator, guardian, caretaker, stewardhttp://fineart.about.com/od/Fine_Art_Curator_FAQs/f/What-Type-Skills-Does-Art-Curator-Need.htm
https://www.udemy.com/part-1-art-gallery-management/
curator
[kyoo-rey-ter, kyoo r-ey- for 1–3; kyoo r-uh-ter for 4]
SpellSyllables
See more synonyms on Thesaurus.comnoun1.the person in charge of a museum, art collection, etc.
2.a person who selects content for presentation, as on a website.
3.a manager; superintendent.
4.Law. a guardian of a minor, lunatic, or other incompetent, especially with regard to his or her property.
New Dreams, Old Treasures
http://www.culturewaitaki.org.nz/forrester-gallery/exhibition/fine-art-prelim-colin-wheeler-working-drawings
Forrester Gallery
FINE ART PRELIM: COLIN WHEELER WORKING DRAWINGS
Colin Wheeler is an important regional artist, well known for his love and painterly documentation of our natural and built landscape. His exceptional ability and skill in observation, recording and drawing technique deserves our attention and respect.
This exhibition features detailed preparatory sketches exploring tone and colour, notes and gridded 'roughs' together with the paints to which they relate.
Event: Conversation between the curator of the exhibition Warwick Smith and the artist's son Paul Wheeler, Tuesday 7 June, 2015 at 6.00pm.
14 May 2016 to 3 July 2016
http://kjohnsonnz.blogspot.co.nz/2016/01/for-colin-wheeler-nz-artist-1919-2012.html
Colin Wheeler 1919 -2012
One of North Otago’s most acclaimed artists, Colin Wheeler.Born in Dunedin in 1919, he studied at the Canterbury School of Art and Camberwell School of Arts and Craft in London.
He moved to Oamaru in 1951 to work as art master at Waitaki Boys’ High School. Former pupils have very fond memories of his class.
I once had the privilege of visiting him in his home. He was a very modest man but his enthusiasm for his art and knowledge of the subjects he painted was inspirational.
His books of paintings of historic sheep stations which were first published in the 1960s were very popular and he has left a huge legacy of paintings of rural New Zealand.
His work also established a record of North Otago landscapes and buildings and an invaluable collection depicting Oamaru scenes. He gifted many of his paintings to the Forrester Gallery, some of which can be seenhere.
His contribution to art was recognised with a Queens Service Medal.
The Artist’s Room also has examples of his work.
The Oamaru Mail pays tribute to him here and this website has more on his career.
Leslie GerryAn Internationally acclaimed artist ....
Hi there Leslie
My friend sent me a present from England today. I absolutely adore it and want to thank you for helping make a dull, rainy Friday in Twizel, New Zealand, just so much brighter and fun! I wore it at school all day (I'm the cooking and sewing teacher at Twizel Area School) and smiles overtook the whole school of 200 students. Later, I went to buy a thank you card in our wee village and the same thing happened. Then when I got home, my two springers jumped with elation as I walked through the gate. Just wanted to share ... your talent is quite magical! Hope your day was as fun as mine today!
Hi Lyn
Thank you for sending me such a wonderful email!I am so glad you liked the apron.It is amazing how many people think that dog is theirs, Your girls look great. Well springers are a special breed - manic, loving workaholics.
Unfortunately I never got to NZ despite training at art college in Sydney.
With best wishesLeslie
www.lesliegerryeditions.com
Hi Leslie
Wow, so lovely to get an email from you. I imagine you are a very busy person, so I am humbled you took the time to personally reply.
Even though you have lived in Australia, I sure hope you get to spoil yourself and take some time out in scenic New Zealand. Here in middle earth we are spoilt for the rich treasures of nature at its purest ... (a vast contrast to your New York study, but wonderfully similar stark definitive lines)
I sincerely hope you can plan an escape and come and visit us ... we're 100% PURE.
I am predicting you have a Golden Retriever and possibly two, if not more cats.
My 11 and 12 year old students at Twizel Area School are currently doing a study on Museums and how curators create collections. Would you mind if we sent you some questions about your work and where your original works are currently showcased? We are heading to Oamaru to visit the Forrester Gallery to view the late local artist Colin Wheeler's collection ... we like his interpretations of our barren landscapes ...
http://tas2016room15.wikispaces.com/Behind+the+Scenes
Hope you have had a creative week.
Kind regards
Lyn
Hi Lyn
Yes I have had 2 golden retrievers, 1 black lab and a couple of staffordshire bull terriers. Only a staffy at the moment plus 2 cats and a pony!
I very much like the Colin Wheeler paintings. He must have been around many of the English Railway poster artists in the 50s. ( I can see that he trained at Camberwell)
I am in the middle of a book on Havana and have completed 17 paintings for it so far - 8 to go. I will publish it towards the end of the year and will have a book launch at a book fair in San Francisco Feb 2017.
In the past I have created work for museums, especially many custom made products for them to sell to the public.
Best wishes
Leslie
We found Havana on our map of Cuba. We chose a scene that we might paint if we were there.
We found a Railway Poster from the 1950's that looks a bit like Colin Wheeler's style ...
Look whats new in Oamaru ...
Opening a portal to another world
Home » News » RegionsBy Hamish MacLean on Fri, 20 May 2016The Regions: North Otago
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As would-be soldiers in the 20th century boarded a train in Oamaru, heading off to war, perhaps stepping on to the train was the first step in a voyage through a portal to an alternative universe.
Oamaru sculptor Don Paterson has an eye for the monstrous and unnatural and a taste for reality ‘‘tinted with fantasy'', and he has transformed the 116-year-old 3200sq m Oamaru Railway Station into an art installation that echoes those early steps into the unknown.
Oamaru's Prehistoric World will open on June 3, but even then visitors will only see the ‘‘tip of the iceberg'', Mr Paterson said as he guided the Otago Daily Times through the space yesterday. In an audiovisual room he played a 12-minute short film created by friend and long-time collaborator Oamaru painter and film-maker Jac Grenfell.
Antarctic rocks from David Harrowfield's collection, donated by friend to the project Zena Keen, offered a taste of the genuine learning that occurred at Oamaru's Prehistoric World and Dave Herbert had created plywood skeletal dinosaurs that inhabit it.
The ‘‘face'' of Oamaru's Prehistoric World, Larry, a sly impish creature seen throughout, rides a life-sized giant moa, one of Mr Herbert's creations, next to a fibreglass cast of a T-Rex skull.
Oamaru's Prehistoric World was a place where a knight in shining armour would fight a triceratops, Mr Paterson said.‘‘Why ‘do' dinosaurs like everyone else?'' he said. ‘‘I just want something really spectacular.''Mr Paterson would point guests to the Vanished World Society in Duntroon. What he created was ‘‘a bit of reality-based fantasy, if there is such a thing'' and what he hoped would soon become one of Oamaru's main attractions.
Mr Paterson was a key figure in setting up Steampunk HQ. The sturdy metal in the building is very much his style. Mr Paterson and Mr Grenfell were also instrumental in the design of Steampunk HQ's Infinity Portal and the massive Steampunk train that sits out front.
He was one of those behind the 3.2m-high, 4m-long
Steampunk-styled elephant in the Steampunk playground at Friendly Bay and the 6m-high giant penny-farthing swing there too. Mr Paterson's footprint at the Oamaru Harbour extends to the Galley, the Steampunk-themed cafe with rusted-metal exterior was his brainchild.
Mr Paterson bought the Oamaru Railway Station for $1000 in March last year, but the Oamaru Whitestone Civic Trust imposed a condition that he spend at least $100,000 (plus GST), excluding labour, on maintenance and restoration over the following 18 months.
Mr Paterson said he spent the sum in the first four months as the building was derelict, leaking and rotting.‘‘It was getting tired,'' Mr Paterson said.
When Mr Paterson bought the building he had three priorities: preserve the building; create a hub; and create something for people to enjoy again. ‘‘In a strange way it does become a portal to other places''.
The Station, in Humber St, already houses a restaurant and brewery, which opened in October last year.
Virtual reality, in which visitors would be able to put on headsets and ride a dinosaur, or watch a stampede of dinosaurs around them, would become a part of the experience by the end of the year.
‘‘It has to evolve,'' he said. ‘‘It has to grow, everything needs to grow.''
hamish.maclean@odt.co.nz
Lets go virtual
Go to London to visit the ...
http://www.educatorstechnology.com/2014/01/20-wonderful-online-museums-and-sites.html
Te Papa Museum of New Zealand
Te Papa Museum of New Zealandhttp://ssol.tki.org.nz/social_studi...tions/te_papa_museum_of_new_zealand
Virtual Museum of Canada, levels 1–8
Virtual Museum of Canada, levels 1–8http://ssol.tki.org.nz/social_studi...virtual_museum_of_canada_levels_1_8
Nobel Prize e-museum, levels 4–8
The Nobel e-museum is a great place to start for information on all of the Nobel Prize winners. Each winner has a brief biography and the context for them winning the Nobel Prize. Educational ... Nobel Prize e-museum, levels 4–8http://ssol.tki.org.nz/social_studi...phy/nobel_prize_e_museum_levels_4_8
Stories of the Dreaming, levels 1–8
This Australian Museum site explores Australian Aboriginal Dreaming (or creation) stories. ... This Australian Museum site explores Australian Aboriginal Dreaming (or creation) stories.http://ssol.tki.org.nz/social_studi.../stories_of_the_dreaming_levels_1_8
School Journals related to our Museum Inquiry
The prince and the albatross egg
by HUDSON, Rose
When Prince Charles visited a Wellington science museum, he listened to Dunedin and Wellington primary school pupils taking part in a video conference about the royal albatross.
Part 03 No. 3 : 1994 : Pgs 43-47
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Prince Charles and the Royal Albatross 1994
Living in the old museum house
by EDER, Margaret
Where people are exhibits in a world run by robots.
Part 04 No. 2 : 1995 : Pgs 34-38
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Ancient History
by WERRY, Philippa
The twenty-fifth century class is on a visit to the museum where they see objects from the past, such as a car, food, and a book. [Six characters]
Level 3 Jun : 2012 : 36-43
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The man who makes animals
by SOMERSET, David
Tom Tischler makes life-size models of animals - gorillas, tortoises, koalas, eagles, and many more - for museums and zoos in North America. We can follow the steps in the making of a bronze komodo dragon.
Part 02 No. 4 : 1993 : Pgs 30-35
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The Moa
by STORER, Steven R.
Tipene has discovered a moa skeleton, and an expert from Auckland Museum is coming down to look at it. Tipene is famous, and everyone wants to know him. So why is Tipene so worried?
Part 04 No. 3 : 2001 : Pgs 20-25
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What did they do for fun?
by O'BRIEN, Bill
Four generations of Royce Madigan's family have lived in the Dunedin suburb of Caversham. Royce decides to find out about the lives of his grandfather and great-grandfather. He uses a variety of resources that include family photos, websites, and the Otago Settlers Museum.
Part 02 No. 1 : 2004 : Pgs 16-23
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Helping to win the war
by GRACE, Dick
In this evocative memoir, Dick Grace recounts life as a schoolboy in an East Coast Maori settlement during the Second World War. He recalls how the community contributed to the war effort by raising money for Te Rau Aroha, a canteen truck for the Maori Battalion, now housed in the Army Museum at Waiouru.
Part 01 No. 03 : 2007 : 18-26
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Hi there North Otago Museum Team
We are a class of Year 7 and 8 students at Twizel Area School. Our teacher, Miss McLennan, has given us the option to choose our topic of inquiry in Social Studies this term.
Last year we learned about New Zealand National Park walking tracks, Culture and Heritage of Scottish and Dutch immigrants, Natural Disasters in the World, and in Term 4 a unit about how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
We would like to know what you currently have on exhibition that we might consider learning about for our inquiry.
Looking forward to hearing from you
Room 15 students at Twizel Area School
http://www.culturewaitaki.org.nz/forrester-gallery/whats-on
VISIT THE FORRESTER GALLERY
The Forrester Gallery in the Lawson designed former Bank of New South Wales building located at 9 Thames Street, Oamaru 9400.
Open: Weekdays from 10.30am-4.30pm. Weekends and public holidays from 1.00pm-4.30pm (Closed: ANZAC morning, Easter Friday, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day)
Admission Free | Donations Welcomed The Forrester Gallery is funded by the Waitaki District Council.
http://www.vanishedworld.co.nz/
School Production Week 10 Term 2 2016
Tukarakare's Dream
http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/greenstone-patu
The mere (Māori pronunciation: [ˈmɛrɛ]) is a type of short, broad-bladed weapon in the shape of an enlarged tear drop. It was used to strike/jab an opponent in the body or the head (it is misleading to call it a club as described by early visitors to New Zealand) (patu), usually made from Nephrite jade (Pounamu or greenstone).[1] A mere is one of the traditional, close combat, one-handed weapons of the indigenous Māori, of New Zealand and a symbol of chieftainship.
The Maori word for greenstone is Pounamu. The stone is also known as Nephrite (jade) and Bowenite (serpentine). The New Zealand variety is found only at Te Waipounamu (the waters of greenstone) which is the South Island. Colours vary considerably Pounamu was and is highly valued by Maori for its beauty and spiritual quality. Traditionally it was shaped into ornaments, weapons and tools which over time acquired status as taonga or treasured possessions.
Level 4
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
Social studies
Understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people. (Term 2)
Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments. (Term 1)
Understand that events have causes and effects.
Understand how producers and consumers exercise their rights and meet their responsibilities.
Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities.
Understand how people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges.